{"id":6867,"date":"2024-04-01T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2024-04-01T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:23:42","slug":"the-coloniality-of-canadian-islamophobia-and-anti-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=6867","title":{"rendered":"The Coloniality of Canadian Islamophobia \u2013 and anti-Islamophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author:<\/b> Azeezah Kanji<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation<\/b>: Legal academic and writer based in Toronto<\/span><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher: <\/b>Aljazeera<\/span><\/p>

Date\/Place:<\/b> July 2, 2021\/Doha, Qatar<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Opinion Report<\/span><\/p>

Word Count: <\/b>1693<\/span><\/p>

Link:<\/b> https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/7\/2\/the-coloniality-of-canadian-islamophobia-and-anti<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Canadian Islamophobia, Anti-Islamophobia\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Brief:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>

Following the recent deadly\u00a0attack\u00a0on Muslims in Canada\u2014the\u00a0third\u00a0in four years\u2014\u201canti-Islamophobia\u201d is being used as a tool to calm the local Muslim community in the midst of a comfortably Islamophobic nation.<\/span> Political leaders have shed tears for the Afzaal family downtown in London, Ontario on a public street, while yet upholding the same policies of brutality against Muslims: commonly\u00a0 aggregating the\u00a0 military spending;\u00a0trading\u00a0arms\u00a0to states that slaughter Muslims;\u00a0endeavoring\u00a0to deport Muslim refugees to the risk of torture; and spending millions of dollars to fight the compensation claims of \u201cWar on Terror\u201d torture survivors in court. The radical dehumanization of Indigenous peoples underpinned the genocidal violence of the US\u2019s \u201cIndian Wars,\u201d which created legal and military precedents that have been carried over into the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d: a mantle for the ongoing suppression of Indigenous and Muslim resistance to domination by colonial states, from Canada to Palestine to Kashmir. Canada targets Indigenous land and water defenders with many of the same counterterrorism powers of mass surveillance and criminalisation developed for use against Muslim communities post-9\/11 \u2013 continuing the long tradition of treating those on the receiving end of state terror as \u201cterrorists\u201d themselves. The response to the London attacks highlights not only the fallacy, but the absurdity, of appealing to this colonial state apparatus as the solution to racism when in fact it lies at the source; an apparatus that continues to reproduce the white supremacism situated at its heart, whether by the condemned violence of a van attack or the condoned violence of police and military killings, torture complicity, and erasure of Indigenous sovereignty. For the members of the Afzaal family killed in London \u2013 Talat, Salman, Madiha, and Yumna \u2013 we say inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji\u2019un, from God we come and to God we will return. This is a reminder that if we all come from the same place and will all return to the same place, then all systems of racial supremacism in between are constructed and can therefore be deconstructed: a struggle that carries on in their memory.<\/span><\/p>

By: Maryam Khan, CIGA Research Associate<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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